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Bolton Wanderers 2-1 Cambridge United

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Top scorer Eoin Doyle and captain Antoni Sarcevic scored first-half goals as Bolton extended their unbeaten run to 10 games with a League Two win over Cambridge United.

Ian Evatt's seventh-placed side are now four points off an automatic promotion spot after amassing 26 points from a possible 30.

Cambridge stay second but Kyle Knoyle's 80th-minute goal, courtesy of keeper Matt Gilks' handling error, was only consolation.

There was a sombre start to the game as Sarcevic and Us captain Greg Taylor laid wreaths to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Burnden Park tragedy. Thirty-three fans died and hundreds more were injured at Wanderers' FA Cup quarter-final second leg against Stoke on 9 March, 1946.

Once the action started Bolton were soon on the front foot. Callum Burton saved from Doyle, Declan John and Dapo Afolayan before the Trotters took a 37th-minute lead.

Sarcevic and Gethin Jones linked superbly and Doyle finished with an angled low right-footed drive.

Six minutes later Burton denied Afolayan but Sarcevic hammered home his seventh goal of the campaign.

Bolton could not maintain their high-tempo display but had already done enough to claim their latest three points despite Knoyle setting up a tense finish.

Report supplied by PA Media.

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